Kress & McDuffie: Animation Authors Caucus Animation Award honorees

KressMcDuffie The Animation Authors Caucus honorees both died this year. AWC chair Craig Burns states: "Both were people I had been glad to call friend and friend, and whose efforts, it may truthfully be stated, made many of us the greater on their behalf. They left us way too soon and too youthful."Earl Kress who died in September at 60, labored in excess of 3 decades to assist bring WGA good things about animation authors. But he was a lot more than an organizer Spike Brandt, a WB producer who labored with Kress, takes note of him being an "animation historian," whose niche was visual gags.Brandt states Kress wasn't concerned about being "stylish" if this found writing animation for Warner Bros. "He checked out who the figures were, and did that which was satisfactory.InchBurns calls honoree Dwayne McDuffie, who died just below last year at 49, "a gifted author and creator of comics and animation who labored a hardship on others, particularly for minority authors."AWC member Stan Berkowitz takes note of when McDuffie found L.A. to operate around the animated adaptation of their own African-American comicbook, "Static Shock." "It had not been lengthy before he was one of the main lights of super hero animation."WGA Honours 2012Truth elbows out gags Good timing for WGA prexyHonoreesKress & McDuffie Eric Roth Tate Taylor Patric Verrone Zwick & Herskovitz Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com